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gull
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response 16 of 45:
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Jul 2 18:41 UTC 2003 |
Re #9: If you're running Win95 or later, install one of the UNIX tools
for Win32 packages. (I don't mean Cygwin; there are some native ones.)
Not only will you get 'ls', but having functioning 'ps' and 'kill'
commands is sometimes handy. Having things like a Win32-native 'find'
command also lets you write more sophisticated batch files than you'd be
able to normally.
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dcat
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response 17 of 45:
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Jul 2 19:23 UTC 2003 |
resp:14 - wow. i'll have to check that out sometime. . .
(unfortunately, i won't have a network at least till i get back to school
in August. But sometime after then. . .)
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other
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response 18 of 45:
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Jul 2 19:40 UTC 2003 |
re#14: Wow. That was quite a pitch. It sounds like a significant
advance in computer system design and function. What your description
really elicits from me in response, though, is the question, "So what are
the biggest problems, flaws, faults, etcetera with Plan 9?" Would you
mind addressing that as well?
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orinoco
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response 19 of 45:
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Jul 2 19:49 UTC 2003 |
re #11: I find myself making the same mistake with the control and option keys
on my Macintosh keyboard, since I use the same finger for both. Using control
instead of option is usually pretty innocuous. Using option instead of
control does some strange, strange things.
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cross
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response 20 of 45:
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Jul 2 21:48 UTC 2003 |
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dcat
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response 21 of 45:
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Jul 3 14:55 UTC 2003 |
re: too much computering:
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/nq/2003/nq030702.gif
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gregb
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response 22 of 45:
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Jul 3 15:18 UTC 2003 |
Phew! I wore myself out reading all that. B-)
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jaklumen
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response 23 of 45:
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Jul 5 10:19 UTC 2003 |
*That* was funny as hell, especially in regards to the Danae
character. I didn't think she'd be that isolationist, but hey, I
suppose you can cut yourself off in cybersp...
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slestak
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response 24 of 45:
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Jul 6 22:48 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for the tutorial cross !! A few months back I took a look at Bell Labs
site for Plan 9, began reading through the install notes, but became side
tracked with Gentoo Linux. I like the 0% analogy. I'll dig into Plan 9 this
week and take it on as a new project. Cheers!!
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albaugh
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response 25 of 45:
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Jul 7 03:51 UTC 2003 |
I have been grexing while on vacation in the Philippines. Is that too much?
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cross
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response 26 of 45:
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Jul 7 19:32 UTC 2003 |
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remmers
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response 27 of 45:
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Jul 7 23:22 UTC 2003 |
Yeah. I think of vacations away from home partly as "computer breaks".
That includes Grex, of course.
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tod
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response 28 of 45:
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Jul 7 23:26 UTC 2003 |
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dcat
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response 29 of 45:
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Jul 24 23:40 UTC 2003 |
You may have been using computers too much if:
... you look for the page-down button on your book.
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novomit
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response 30 of 45:
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Jul 25 11:40 UTC 2003 |
You have been using UNIX too much if:
... you hit the ESC key while in notepad.
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scott
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response 31 of 45:
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Jul 25 12:06 UTC 2003 |
... your friends keep asking why your Word documents have a long string
of 'j's at the top and a "ZZ" at the end.
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mynxcat
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response 32 of 45:
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Jul 25 12:57 UTC 2003 |
Heh... that was good. I've done that when switching from vi to Word
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novomit
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response 33 of 45:
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Jul 25 13:01 UTC 2003 |
Me as well. Problem with notepad is that ESC kills the app and you lose what
you were typing!
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gull
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response 34 of 45:
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Jul 25 13:07 UTC 2003 |
nedit deliberately doesn't bind the Esc key to anything by default, so
recovering vi addicts can bang on it without hurting anything.
For me the more dangerous thing was the default binding of Ctrl-Alt-Del
to "shutdown -r now" on most Linux distributions. Why is this
dangerous? Well, when you have Windows NT machines on the same KVM
switch, and you're used to hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in... After a
couple unfortunate incidents I disabled that "feature".
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novomit
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response 35 of 45:
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Jul 25 13:12 UTC 2003 |
I did that as well. You get used to doing a lot on windoze machines, and when
you switch to Linux, you can shut down your system too easily since I kind
of do it "automatically" when something fouls up.
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tod
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response 36 of 45:
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Jul 25 16:44 UTC 2003 |
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novomit
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response 37 of 45:
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Jul 25 16:48 UTC 2003 |
Dont use hotmail anymore, all I got there was spam.
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oval
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response 38 of 45:
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Jul 25 17:00 UTC 2003 |
http://www.notmail.org
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tod
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response 39 of 45:
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Jul 25 17:09 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 40 of 45:
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Aug 12 20:29 UTC 2003 |
I'm pretty much deleting all mail from Hotmail these days, ever since
they stopped sending text along with the HTML. Pine can't deal with HTML.
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